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Soon,
I
will offer you lots more superlatives about
Canada.. I will also throw in enough facts and [useless] data that you
will end up spending many hours here and not even realize you are
learning!
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The
total length of the Canada/U.S. boundary is 8,890 kilometres.
Canada's largest and one of the world's greatest earthquake, was
August 22, 1949, just
off the Queen
Charlotte Islands. The magnitude was a whopping 8.1 -- it was
definitely felt for miles around!
But the most destructive earthquake in Canada was on November 18, 1929
in the Atlantic Ocean, just
south of Newfoundland. It was a 7.2 magnitude. 27 people
drowned and so much damage done by
a tsunami on the Burin Peninsula, just off the island of Newfoundland.
Canada has the world's longest coastline at 202,080 kilometres.
I'm not sure this is something to be proud of or not, but the fastest-built
highway is the Alaska
Highway. It runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks,
Alaska.
And for some quotes by Canadians
and/or about Canada
Click here!
For
some great Canadian quizzes, I highly recommend
Historica!
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see more superlatives and trivia? Have any suggestions? Don't hesitate to
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